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Walk the Line

Posted on January 14, 2016August 23, 2018 by Village Vidiot

 

  “Walk the Line,” 14 January 2006 (2005), theater.  Bronwen liked this biopic about Johnny Cash (Juaquin Phoenix) and June Carter Cash (Reese Witherspoon) that takes the tale from his youth to her finally agreeing to marry him. It’s a good film about the music (lots of music and that’s fun!), the drugs, the sex, and the personal and family stuff (his brother’s death). Phoenix is good, and Witherspoon is really fine! Still, this is a very white film that needed to do more about the times, in Tennessee, about race, the war, about new cultures. Yes, he’s the first (1964) to get Dylan, but how does that play out?. Where was he regarding civil rights?. Black/white in music?. The war?. The issues of the day?. Other than locked inside a prescription medicine chest. I think that needs to be explored to make the movie more contextual. Still, the music was lots of fun and the love story (especially Carter) was really interesting.

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